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In engineering, you have to take an abstract idea and figure out how to make it work. Engineers take an artist\\u2019s sketches and turn them into structurally sound buildings, for example. Creation is not just about the mental picture, but about actually making it work.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Tools and materials\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Some of my tools have been with me for most of my life. I\\u2019ve been an avid photographer for as long as I can remember. Most of my recent growth in art was sparked at the Crucible after I moved out to the San Francisco Bay Area to work after graduation. At the Crucible and as part of the larger community, I learned a lot of interesting lessons about how to approach abstract art. 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Biology and organic chemistry scare me because they don\\u2019t reduce down so comfortably.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Inspiration\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Since I was a kid, I\\u2019ve been an avid reader, so I have a certain amount of literary history to draw from, even if a good sized chunk of it is fantasy and science fiction. I\\u2019ve got enough programming and mathematical experience to be able to understand, on an analytical basis, what the light is really doing when it bounces around a scene. I watch ballet and Broadway. I see things in the world and decide to try to recreate them.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"All of this collects in the back of my brain until ideas come out.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Location\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The San Francisco Bay has been a beacon for geeks for decades now and somehow, after graduating, I found myself out here too. I\\u2019ve lived in both the east coast and the midwest before that. There\\u2019s some huge advantages to living out here and a bunch of things that make me wish I could leave. Yet something keeps me here.\"), mdx(\"h2\", null, \"Research\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"In many areas, the sum of my knowledge results not from any single teacher or influence or book, but from heavy research. So I\\u2019ve read a bunch of books on photography from a variety of sources and checked my conclusions through experimentation. 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